Oliver Ding

Oliver Ding

Founder of CALL (Creative Action Learning Lab), information architect, knowledge curator.

Appropriating Activity Theory #8: Stage, Map, and Moves

The seed from 2017 has now grown into the History {Life[Self(Body)]} Framework (v3.0), a meta-framework for the Meta-frameworks project.

Activity Analysis Network #7: The Piano House, Activity, and Mind

In this issue (#7), two new articles explore the Activity as Container conceptual deck I created in 2017, and the story behind it.

Appropriating Activity Theory #7: The Piano House and Activity as Container

The "Activity-as-Container" conceptual deck was part of a four-project creative journey from July 2017 to Feb 2018.

Revisiting the "Activity - Relation" Framework (2017)

Deconstructing Oliver Ding's "Activity-as- Container" Conceptual Deck

Developmental Projects (book, v1, 2025)

The Project Engagement Approach to Adult Development

Appropriating Activity Theory #6: Engaging with Andy Blunden's Creative Ideas

The student had to become a creator before he could adequately teach the teacher's ideas.

The Concept of "Developmental Project"

The Living Way of the “Developmental Project” Concept

Activity Analysis Network #6: Project as Social Environment

From November 15 to November 30, I worked on editing a new possible book: Developmental Projects: The Project Engagement Approach to Adult Development.

Toward a Project-Oriented Ecology of Adult Development

Vygotsky’s “Ecological Mind” and a New Approach to Adult Development

The Cultural Projection Model (2025)

The approach expands Activity Theory’s internalization-externalization principle by introducing the “Outside — Projecting — Inside” triad as a basic ecological form to describe how people engage with social environments, particularly with projects.